Section 839IAC1-5.5-4. Experience requirements for clinical addiction counselors

   (a) As used in IC 25-23.6-10.5-8, "two (2) years of clinical addiction counseling experience" means experience under qualified supervision, acquired over not less than twenty-one (21) months and over not more than forty-eight (48) months, any time subsequent to the date certified by the degree-granting institution as that on which all requirements for the master's degree have been completed. A doctoral student may continue to accrue hours for this clinical addiction counseling experience requirement once the doctoral internship has been completed.

  (b) As used in IC 25-23.6-10.5-8, "qualified supervisor" means an individual who is supervising within his or her scope of experience and training and holds an active license at the time of supervision as:

(1) a clinical addiction counselor;

(2) a clinical social worker;

(3) a marriage and family therapist;

(4) a physician who has training in psychiatric medicine;

(5) a psychologist;

(6) a clinical nurse specialist in psychiatric or mental health nursing; or

(7) another state-regulated addiction counseling professional or, if the experience was gained in a state where no regulation exists, by an addictions or behavioral health professional of equivalent status;

with at least five (5) years of experience in addictions counseling. (Behavioral Health and Human Services Licensing Board; 839 IAC 1-5.5-4; filed Aug 1, 2012, 11:01 a.m.: 20120829-IR-839110676FRA)